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Dependable and Historic Computing

Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Cliff B. Jones

    1. School of Computing Science, Newcaslte University, NE1 7RU, UK

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  2. John L. Lloyd

    1. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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  • Commemorative volume honoring outstanding scientist
  • State of the art contributions on the history of computing
  • Up-to-date research

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6875)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Part A: Biographical

    1. What I Learned from Brian

      • Hermann Kopetz
      Pages 1-6

    2. Brian Randell: A Biographical Note

      • John L. Lloyd, Tom Anderson
      Pages 7-14

  3. Part B: Conference Papers

    1. On Building a Referee’s Avatar

      • Algirdas Avižienis
      Pages 15-22

    2. From Theory to Practice: The Invention of Programming, 1947-51

      • Martin Campbell-Kelly
      Pages 23-37

    3. Transactions: From Local Atomicity to Atomicity in the Cloud

      • David Lomet
      Pages 38-52

    4. From DSS to MILS

      • John Rushby
      Pages 53-57

    5. Pre-electronic Computing

      • Doron Swade
      Pages 58-83

    6. Whetstone Wanderings

      • Brian Wichmann
      Pages 84-92

  4. Part C: Contributed Papers

    1. Using Real-Time Road Traffic Data to Evaluate Congestion

      • Jean Bacon, Andrei Iu. Bejan, Alastair R. Beresford, David Evans, Richard J. Gibbens, Ken Moody
      Pages 93-117

    2. Fault Tolerant Autonomic Computing Systems in a Chemical Setting

      • Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Christine Morin, Thierry Priol
      Pages 118-129

    3. Out of a Closet: The Early Years of The Computer Museum

      • Gordon Bell
      Pages 130-146

    4. Timing Faults and Mixed Criticality Systems

      • Alan Burns, Sanjoy Baruah
      Pages 147-166

    5. Professor Brian Randell and the History of Computing

      • Paul E. Ceruzzi
      Pages 167-173

    6. Computer Storage Fragmentation: Pioneering Work of Brian Randell

      • Ed Coffman
      Pages 174-184

    7. IBM-ACS: Reminiscences and Lessons Learned from a 1960’s Supercomputer Project

      • Lynn Conway
      Pages 185-224

    8. The Belgian Electronic Mathematical Machine (1951-1962): An Account

      • Pierre-Jacques Courtois
      Pages 225-237

    9. On the Resilience of the Dependability Framework to the Intrusion of New Security Threats

      • Marc Dacier
      Pages 238-250

    10. Virtual Fault Tolerance

      • Peter J. Denning
      Pages 251-260

    11. Recovery Blocks

      • Tony Hoare
      Pages 261-266
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About this book

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Brian Randell on the occasion of his 75th birthday, contains a total of 37 refereed contributions. Two biographical papers are followed by the six invited papers that were presented at the conference 'Dependable and Historic Computing: The Randell Tales', held during April 7-8, 2011 at Newcastle University, UK. The remaining contributions are authored by former scientific colleagues of Brian Randell.

The papers focus on the core of Brian Randell’s work: the development of computing science and the study of its history. Moreover, his wider interests are reflected and so the collection comprises papers on software engineering, storage fragmentation, computer architecture, programming languages and dependability. There is even a paper that echoes Randell’s love of maps.

After an early career with English Electric and then with IBM in New York and California, Brian Randell joined Newcastle University. His main research has been on dependable computing in all its forms, especially reliability, safety and security aspects, and he has led several major European collaborative projects.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computing Science, Newcaslte University, NE1 7RU, UK

    Cliff B. Jones

  • School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    John L. Lloyd

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